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To: BenLurkin

Just think. When Ebola makes it to America, we won’t have to worry about “global warming”, “immigration reform” and Hillary getting elected. It’s coming and it’s going to be ugly.


3 posted on 07/26/2014 1:18:12 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a refugee camp! It is my home!!!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer; Kozak

The disease is spread by contact with infected blood or bodily fluids. The person who died in Lagos worked in ebola research and, IIRC, in a hospital, so he got probably got it there.

It can also be transmitted through eating infected meats (but we don’t eat monkey meat) and through sexual contact with an infected person...in other words, like AIDS.

It’s not airborne, although it is more infectious than AIDS, which required a heavier exposure to bodily fluids (a transfusion, sex, etc.). However, I gather you can get ebola from contact with some item that the infected person has touched.

So wash your hands regularly and don’t touch your face! Your mother probably always told you that anyway.


7 posted on 07/26/2014 1:32:26 PM PDT by livius
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